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Marvel Rivals’ Spring Festival event adds several Chinese New Year-themed cosmetics.
NetEase Games has unveiled Marvel Rivals’ first-ever Chinese New Year-themed event. The game’s Spring Festival event kicks off this week on 23 January (9am UTC), bringing a Rocket League-like soccer game mode and several themed cosmetics to the game for Iron Fist, Black Widow, and Star Lord.
Watch the trailer below:
Marvel Rivals launches Spring Festival event this week
NetEase Games is bringing even more content to Marvel Rivals Season 1, right before The Human Torch and The Thing join the playable roster in February. This week, the game is kicking off its Chinese New Year festivities with a Spring Festival event. The event will allow players to earn limited-time cosmetics simply by completing certain in-game tasks.
First up is the event’s all-new game mode: Clash of Dancing Lions, which plays very similarly to Rocket League, only with Marvel heroes instead of vehicles. In other words, Overwatch 2’s Lucioball. This 3v3 mode will see players use hero abilities to steal a soccer ball and get it through a goalpost by any means necessary.
The trailer sees Star-Lord, Iron Fist and Black Widow participate in a match together, so it’s unclear if the entire roster will be playable in this mode. The trio will also get limited-time cosmetics for the Spring Festival event, but Star-Lord’s costume and nameplate will be freely available for all players to claim through gameplay.
Iron Fist and Black Widow’s costumes will likely be paid items in the in-game shop. Marvel Rivals’ Spring Festival event kicks off on January 23, 2025.